In the military world, EGADS is an acronym for Electronic Ground Automatic Destruct System.
In the U.S., people play on their home computers more in the East and work more on them in the South and West, according to a survey from the NPD Group, Inc. market researchers.
In web site addresses on the Internet, "http" stands for "hypertext transfer protocol."
In years past, spermaceti oil – from the sperm whale – was used as transmission oil in Rolls-Royce automobiles.
Indonesia is the world's largest producer of liquefied natural gas.
Inside an asbestos suit coated with aluminum, a fire fighter may experience a sweaty, but tolerable, 85 degrees to 100 degrees F, while attempting to extinguish an inferno of jet fuel raging at over 2,000 degrees. Aluminum's reflective qualities are used in hundreds of ways.
ISBN stands for "International Standard Book Number." The ISBN is a 10-digit identification system that allows booksellers and libraries to easily differentiate between books and other media when ordering. The ISBN refers to the specific edition (e.g., trade paperback, mass market paperback) and is usually located on the back of the book and on the copyright page.
It is estimated that 1.8 billion light bulbs are manufactured each year in the United States.
To make a daguerreotype, an early photograph, required a 15-minute average exposure time.
Tokyo's expressways, built on a radial pattern dating from the eighteenth century, are so overloaded that traffic often grinds to a halt for 30 to 40 miles outside the city.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
Twenty-five percent of Americans with e-mail accounts say they "very often" use e-mail in place of a phone call for non-work related, personal communication.
WD-40 Company products are sold in more than 150 countries around the world.
When the first escalator, or "inclined elevator," was installed in the department store Harrod's in London (near the turn of the century), brandy was served to passengers who felt faint.
It takes 1,100 watts to run an electric toaster.
It took Henry Ford's Motor Company seven years to manufacture 1 million automobiles. One hundred thirty-two working days after this figure was reached (in 1924), the company had made 9 million more cars.
Mechanization and improved technology have made lighthouse keepers unnecessary. Today, all of the lighthouses in the United States have been automated, except the one at Boston, Massachusetts, which still has keepers for sentimental reasons only. Boston Light was the first one built on U.S. shores.
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, launched his business career in 1969, at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend Paul Allen signed an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time.
Nail polish distributors Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with nail polish supplier Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the Revlon name, gave birth to the Revlon cosmetics company in 1932. Starting with just one nail product – a nail enamel unlike any before it – the three men pooled their paltry resources and developed a unique manufacturing process. Using pigments instead of dyes, Revlon was able to offer to women rich-looking, opaque nail enamel in a wide variety of shades never before available. In only six years, the company became a multimillion dollar organization, launching one of the most recognized cosmetics names in the world.
Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
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